I've never resigned from a job, though been laid off twice. Once because the company went out of business and the other because the CFO (chief finance officer) panicked when one of the major customers had not issued an RFQ (request for quote) on an expected huge project. He persuaded the CEO to order a 35% reduction in staff. Because I was in the "hand off to manufacturing" phase of the project I was working one, I was one of "unlucky" people. Anyway, we were given 2 months notice and had full access until turning in our badges in on our last day (was after 8pm by the time I was finished and turned mine in). My tasks during the last 2 months were what I would have been doing anyway - finalizing project documentation and providing support to manufacturing engineers. When the bad news came, the VP of Engineering personally apologized to each of us, then on our last day, he hosted a "good bye" lunch and personally thanked each of us for all of great work. Months later, some of us, including me, received bonus checks as thank you for our work.

FWIW, a month after the bonus checks were sent, the customer finally issued the RFQ. But, I was not available to return to that company. (The return offer was not enough to justify resigning my new job, but was enough to "inspire" my new employer to raise my pay.)

AOL and similar services, like CompuServe, were founded while the Internet was still restricted to "non-commercial entities". They were giant, nation-wide bulletin board systems. They worked and were profitable. At the time they connected to the Internet, it was seen as a way to increase profit. But then came "big content". The major ISPs now perceive that forcing the major content providers to directly pay for access will increase their profits even more.

Will this really work? I don't know. But it will have the side effect of squeezing out the little content providers. The little ones will be dependent on the tolerance of the big ones to get their content seen.

Maybe

The "disk-only" code is still writing to memory. If anything is proven, it's that the OS is doing its memory management better than the Java or Python run time environments.

Would be interesting to add another case to compare: Open an unnamed pipe, write to "write end" of the pipe in the loop, then read the final string from the "read end" of the pipe.

That assumes the blade is sharp enough and travels correctly and swiftly down the track.

Nitrous Oxide (N2O) is also a general anesthetic. Is easy to manufacture. Xenon is a rare element.

As for plain nitrogen, I know, personally 2 people who almost died from hypoxia while using a rebreather while scuba diving. They were not checking their oxygen supply often enough and, in both cases, the low supply warning did not function. They simply lost consciousness. Fortunately, their dive partners noticed and were able to connect spare oxygen bottles in time.

CO2 plus water forms an acid. That is way holding your breath becomes painful after some length of time.

A painless option would be to use a continuous nitrogen purge. Then the condemned runs out of oxygen without a build up of CO2.This is something that anyone who nearly died while using a rebreather device can confirm. If you don't check your oxygen supply often enough and the low supply warning fails, you don't feel the pain associated with CO2 because the rebreather is "scrubbing" the CO2 out of the air you exhale. And because the system is recycling the nitrogen, you also don't get the implicit warning from having to "suck air" when your air tank pressure gets low.

With the proper equipment, I'm sure the data can be recovered. Still best to thoroughly destroy the drive.

I will add that Fossil is a single executable. Just download the executable and copy to a convenient folder/directory. No installation needed.

My girlfriend is a Canadian citizen and pays Canadian (and US) income taxes despite being a full time US resident for greater than 20 years. Also, our daughter, having been born to a Canadian citizen and having not renounced Canadian citizenship also pays income taxes to both Canada and the US.

Actually, most of the content providers are subscribers. They pay their ISPs for access to the internet. Consumers of the content may be subscribers of different ISPs than the content they access. So content providers were providing content to subscribers on different ISPs. Initially, the ISPs saw this as increasing the potential market for their own subscribers, ISPs facilitated it by making "peering" arrangements with each other. These peering arrangements, at first, worked on the assumption that traffic between each pair was roughly equal in both directions. Then "super star" services came along, upsetting the balance of traffic. So, the providers on the receiving side of the "data deluge" decided they wanted to be paid for the imbalance.

Another issue is that the major ISPs, like Camcast and Time Warner, now own some of the major content providers. Naturally, each ISP wants to prioritize the content of the content providers it owns.

The restrictions applied by DARPA applied to all internet users. Services like AOL and Compuserve, when they first offered connections to the internet, offered the internet service they were allowed to offer. They already had services beyond what was allowed on the internet. As the restrictions on internet usage were incrementally relaxed, it became possible for customers of one ISP to offer services to customers of other ISPs. As this increased the potential market for customers of the ISPs, ISPs facilitated it by making "peering" arrangements with each other. These peering arrangements, at first, worked on the assumption that traffic between each pair was roughly equal in both directions. Then "super star" services came along, upsetting the balance of traffic. So, the providers on the receiving side of the "data deluge" decided they wanted to be paid for the imbalance.

When I was a teen, I met and befriended some amish teens at a farmers' market near where I lived. Their parents allowed them to talk with us "English kids". They had other non-amish friends, too. Their village had phones - strictly for business and emergency use, but they were familiar with phones. Also calculators - which they were only allowed to use when helping at the farmers' market. I'm sure, these days, Amish kids are familiar with the internet despite whatever restrictions they live under.

(BTW, the Amish kids were just as horney as us. And they asked us to get them porn.)

Are you sure it's really disconnected? If it has WiFi, it could auto-connect to any available, "open" access point.

I suppose one possibility would be to setup a "dummy" access point and configure the TV to connect to it. But, it's possible the TV, unable to "phone home", could auto-reconnect to any available, "open" access point.

There are already companies that hire 3 or 4 people for every job, each person working between 10 and 15 hours per week. The companies like this because they don't have to provide any benefits to these workers. The workers don't like this because they still need another job or 2. This can be complicated by the use of dynamic scheduling, meaning workers are effectively on-call 12 or more hours per day, every day. The penalty for not accepting an offered "shift" is lowering the probability of being scheduled. So the worker looses not only the offered hours at that time, but also future hours. And since it is probabilistic, the only time blocks a worker will have clear for another job are what otherwise would be sleep time.